Last week, a set of portraits by Miami-based artist, Inez Hollander, entitled Miami Mosaic opened at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU — a forest’s worth of colorful, tropical bouquets may as well have (gently) exploded on the walls. On display until May 5, Hollander’s works, drawn from her Miami Grid series, are a cross-section of [...]
Cristine Brache rubbed the temples of one Chinese face-reader as another offered insights into a participant’s personality, social habits, and metaphysical idiosyncrasies. According to one such reader, Lulu, my eyebrows hinted a stubbornness — funny enough since I was at an art show titled “I’m Open to the Idea.” Friday night’s “I’m Open to the [...]
You already know about tonight’s release party for Strangeways’ latest, ’90s-themed edition. Designer and editor Luis Pinto’s zine, often distributed and promoted just like they were back in the day (flyers, word-of-mouth), deserves a party for every issue, and is hype enough to warrant it. But for this one in particular, we’ve got José Garza [...]
Rebeca Raney’s “RANEYTOWN” is a collection of hundreds of gouache and ink drawings and sculptures. It is also her own world, an ingenious but unaffected rainbow channeled through her childlike imagination directly to the rest of us. As Raney describes it, “The moment I started drawing every day, my practice became about what was in [...]
Becoming privy to an individual’s imagination is a privilege of viewing art, a privilege one forgets unless reminded. Sometimes the artist becomes disassociated from the piece itself somewhere between its construction and its entry into the public, but ultimately — lest we forget — those are someone’s thoughts you’re looking at. That’s the manifestation of [...]
Indianapolis is not a city one immediately associates with the arts or anything otherwise cosmopolitan. Then again, a little over a decade ago, neither was Miami. Rhonda Long-Sharp of the Long-Sharp Gallery in Indianapolis, formerly a lawyer specializing in death-penalty cases, has dedicated much of her soul to collecting art, by both legendary masters and [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
